Richard Brent - Students

Since I am now retired, I am unlikely to be able to supervise new students.

Former Students

• James (Jim) Abbott
  Numerical continuation methods for nonlinear equations and bifurcation problems (ANU, 1978) [pdf, 9MB]
  Systems Analyst, UK
• Andreas Griewank (1950-2021)
  (joint supervision with Michael R. Osborne)
  Analysis and modification of Newton's method at singularities (ANU, 1980) [pdf, 12MB]
  Former Dean, Mathematical Sciences and Information Technology, Yachay Tech, Ecuador
  Former Director of the Institute of Mathematics, Humboldt University, Berlin
  
• Daryel Sachse-Åkerlind (now Daryel Akerlind)
  (joint supervision with Martin Ward)
  Provable conditions in computational complexity theory (ANU, 1984) [pdf, 193MB]
  Founder, Prometheus Information, Canberra
• Philip (Phil) Robertson
  (joint supervision with John O'Callaghan)
  Colour image display: a computational framework based on a uniform colour space (ANU, 1985) [pdf, 87MB]
  Chief Operating Officer, NICTA, Sydney
• Paul Mackerras
  (joint supervision with Iain Macleod)
  Machine interpretation of boundaries in textured images (ANU, 1988) [pdf, 74MB]
  Senior Technical Leader, IBM Linux Technology Center, Canberra.
• Zhou Bing Bing (Bing)
  Systolic architectures for parallel implementation of digital filters (ANU, 1989) [pdf, 49MB]
  Associate Professor, School of Information Technology, University of Sydney.
• Peter Strazdins
  (joint supervision with Heiko Schröder)
  Control structures for mesh-connected networks (ANU, 1990) [pdf, 120MB]
  Associate Professor in Computer Science, ANU (now retired)
• Peter Fletcher
  (joint supervision with Phil Robertson)
  Regular mapping of multi-dimensional data on parallel processors (ANU, 1993) [pdf, 118MB]
  R&D position, CiSRA, Sydney
• Kevin Moore
  (joint supervision with Phil Robertson)
  Interactive space-variant image filtering (ANU, 1997) [pdf, 97MB]
  Chief Technology Officer, General Dynamics Mediaware, Mediaware International, Canberra
• Andrew Tridgell
  (joint supervision with Paul Mackerras and Brendan McKay)
  Efficient algorithms for sorting and synchronization (ANU, 1999) [pdf, 516K]
  Researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center (but located in Canberra).
  Author of Samba.
• M. Manzur Murshed
  The reconfigurable mesh: programming model, self-simulation, adaptablility, optimality, and applications (ANU, 1999) [pdf, 1000K]
  Robert HT Smith Professor, Federation University, Victoria, Australia
• Brian Murphy
  Polynomial selection for the number field sieve integer factorisation algorithm (ANU, 1999) [pdf, 840K]
  Manager, Bain and Co, Sydney
• Wanli Ma
  (joint supervision with C. Johnson, E. V. Krishnamurthy, J. Lloyd, J. B. Millar, M. C Newey, and M. A Orgun)
  T-Cham, a programming language based on transactions and chemical abstract machine (ANU, 2001) [pdf, 113MB]
  Researcher, Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Canberra
• Fatima Abu Salem
  Factorisation algorithms for univariate and bivariate polynomials over finite fields (Oxford, 2004) [pdf, 1084K]
  Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
• Colin Percival
  (joint supervision with Bill McColl)
  Matching with mismatches and assorted applications (Oxford, 2006) [pdf, 432K]
  Developer at Tarsnap and Security Officer at The FreeBSD Project, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Yuan Jenq (Oliver) Lui
  (joint supervision with Ani Calinescu)
  Extracting significant phrases from documents in English and Chinese (Oxford, 2008) [pdf, 776K]
  
• Jörg Arndt
  Generating Random Permutations (ANU, 2010) [pdf, 540K]
  Professor für Programmiersprachen und Softwareentwicklung, Nürnberg, Germany
  
• Shi Bai
  Polynomial selection for the number field sieve (ANU, 2012) [pdf, 768K]
  Assistant Professor in Cryptology, Florida Atlantic University, USA
  
• Christopher Aycock
  (joint supervision with Bill McColl and Tom Melham)
  Progressive Messages: Tracking Message Progress Through Events (Oxford, 2013) [pdf, 1252K]
  "Quant" with Old Mission Capital, USA. Founder of Empirical Software Solutions, LLC.
  
• Srinivasa Subramanya Rao
  Elliptic curve arithmetic for cryptography (ANU, 2017) [pdf, 812K]
  Postdoctoral Researcher at Edith Cowan University Security Research Institute, Perth.
  
• Matthew Skerritt
  (joint supervision with Jonathan Borwein and Michael Coons)
  Some iterative algorithms in experimental mathematics (Newcastle, 2020) [pdf, 115MB]
  Lecturer, RMIT University, Melbourne.
  
  

Academic "Family Tree"

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